... Iraq and intelligence Robin Ramsay I found this on my computer. It was obviously written around 2004 and, as far as I can see, was never used. M ichael Moore's film 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is great propaganda but, like all propaganda, it isn't about the truth. In a section mocking the so-called 'coalition of the willing' which supported the US invasion of Iraq, Moore listed several very small countries – but omitted Australia and the UK. For Australia and the UK the political decision to support the USA caused major ructions within their intelligence systems. As is now admitted, and was known by most independent analysts before the invasion, there was no ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 31) June 1996 Last| Contents| Next Issue 31 Remote Viewing and the US intelligence community Armen Victorian Introduction: While my piece on CIA and DoD psychic research was awaiting publication in Lobster 30, the CIA went public on its interest in so-called Remote Viewing (RV) .( 1) As a result much new information has been obtained. This piece should be read in conjunction with the piece in Lobster 30. At the time of the announcement of its role in Remote Viewing, the Agency and US Department of Defense had a twenty-two year operational track record on Remote Viewing [CIA:1973 to 1977, DoD/DIA; ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 23) June 1992 Last| Contents| Next Issue 23 U.S Army Intelligence mind control experimentation Armen Victorian This article examines hallucinogenic-type drug experiments conducted by various elements of the U.S. Army Intelligence community in conjunction with sections of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. Most of the related records have been destroyed. The following is what I have been able to salvage from the records available on these programs. Edgewood Tests From the available records in the Intelligence Center at Fort Holabird and the Chemical Warfare Laboratories we know that a joint co-oordinated psychochemical drug project started in November 1957. The ground work on this joint project was apparently conducted in the latter part ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 27) June 1994 Last| Contents| Next Issue 27 Policing Politics: Security Intelligence and the Liberal Democratic State Peter Gill Frank Cass, London, 1993 Academia's a swine. Writing an essay on International Relations (the ideological version of Foreign Office 'realism') for my Politics MA, I managed to smuggle in a few references to actual politics-- European Nuclear Nuclear Disarmament, the SNP, and 'independence within Europe', that kind of thing. Flushed with success, I told a friend all about it. 'How fucking tedious,' he said. The bastard was right, too. Likewise with parapolitics: it's not impossible to ...

... In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Oxford University Press, 2013, £20, h/b Bernard Porter Britain and America came quite late to the spying game, but by the late 20th century had come to dominate it. It is this, I suppose, that justifies the subtitle of this book, which scarcely mentions other Western intelligence agencies except in a chapter at the end discussing a possible EU alternative to the current Anglo-American axis. The main title must be meant ironically. The overwhelming impression left by the book is of massive untrustworthiness. It's true, as Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones points out, that 'an intelligence agency can rarely publicise its successes ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 19) May 1990 Last| Contents| Next Issue 19 First supplement to A Who's Who of the British Secret State See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks "Who's Who" (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in 'Inside Intelligence' (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) Spooks (Lobster 22) The official response to the 'Who's who' Lobster special was non-existent. This was something of a disappointment to one solicitor who offered his services free if I had happened to get arrested. There were one or two newspaper articles which advertised its existence so official ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 50) Winter 2005/6 Last| Contents| Next Issue 50 The accountability of the intelligence and security services Jonathan Bloch Accountability I will be discussing a non subject – the accountability of the intelligence services. By accountable we mean the ability to be brought to account, to be answerable for their actions, to be subject to scrutiny and ultimately to have their actions adjudicated upon in a court of law. I will be looking at the accountability of the British intelligence services in the context of civil liberties and their relationship with the public. For most of their existence the British Intelligence Services, namely MI5, GCHQ and MI6 were not governed ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 32) December 1996 Last| Contents| Next Issue 32 UK Eyes Alpha: the Inside Story of British Intelligence Mark Urban Faber and Faber London 1996 £16.99 The first sentence of Urban's conclusion to this very interesting and rather important book is: 'More than anything else, British intelligence is a system for repackaging information gathered by the USA.' He might have added, 'information gathered in large part at US bases in Britain'. Urban has persuaded a surprising number of the Whitehall elite to speak on the record- and many more off it- in a survey of British policy in the last decade or so through the eyes of the ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 54) Winter 2007/8 Last| Contents| Next Issue 54 Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99 Reviewed by John Newsinger On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted 'one of the most extraordinary messages' of the war at Bletchley Park: it referred 'to 1,274,166 Jews killed during 1942 at four death camps Lublin, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka'. The intercept was forwarded to Major Hugh Trevor-Roper, but ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 49) Summer 2005 Last| Contents| Next Issue 49 Spinning the Spies: Intelligence, open government and the Hutton Inquiry Anthony Glees and Philip H. J. Davies London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2004, £30, h/b This is curious little book (112 pp.) in which two conservative intelligence academics wrestle with the realities of the events leading up to the attack on Iraq. But what manner of beast is a conservative intelligence academic? The basic view of these gentlemen is that the oiks – us – need not be consulted or informed; we should not bother our heads with such matters because: 'Public ...